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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
II.
CH AP.
XIX.
Don
Diego de Almagro
1nakgs
himfelf
Governour
1Pith–
out the King's
Co111miffion;
and what Agreement
tF11>
made between hhn and Marquifs
Pi~arro.
D..
Ifcord having now produced
one
of
its
effects
amon~ d~e
Indi11n1,
which
was
the
Death
of
~i~q~i~,
did
endeavour
to avail
in
like
manner a–
mongfr
the
Spaniards,
had not Peace and Friendfuip, which
are an
oppofite par–
ty
thereunto, countermined its Works:
For
it
is
to be
noted,
that
fame
Months
after
the News
came to
Peru
of the
Arrival
of
Hernando Pifarro
in
Spain,
and
of
the
kind
reception which the Treafure
he carried
had
made
for him,
and
of
the
Honour
and Refpeet which was
!hewed
him
in
his
Negotiations with His
Ma–
jell:y, who was
pleafecl
to bellow
the
Title
of
MarquHs on
his
Brother,
of
which
Anguftin Carate
gives an
Account in
rhe
5th
Chapter of
his
3d
Book>
in
this manner:
" Amongll:
other
things for which
the
Governour
Don Ft<M.fco Pifarro
peti~
" tioned
His
Hajefty, one
was,
Thar
in
reward
of
his
great
ices, performed
'' in
the
Conqueft of
Peru,
he
would
be
pleafed to grant co
him and
his
cc
Heirs,
the
perpetual
Vaffalage
of
twenty
tlioufand
Indians
in
the Province
of
''
.Atabi!l.io.r,
together
with
the Rents,
Tribute
and
J
urifdiltion belonging
there–
" unto, and
with
the
Title
of Marquifs.
In
Anf
wer
hereunto His
Maje[ly
" readily
beftowed on
him
the
Tide of
MarquifS
of
that Province;
but
as to
'' the Command
over
the
Indiitn1,
he
would
firft
inform himfelf
of
the
narore
. " and quality
of
the Countrey,
afi'd
of what
Damage or
Prejudice fach a Con–
,, ceffion might prove; and that then he would iliew
him
all the Grace and
Fa–
,, vour which was convenient:
From
which time the Patent of his Marqui–
,, fate
taking date,. we
{hall
for the fucure fiyle him with the Honour of
chat
" Title. Thus far are the Words of
Ca:rate,
who
alfo
affirms; that befides this
Honour, his Government
WflS
enlarged for many Leagues, but yet doth not
tell
us how far.
>
Hernando
Piyarro
obtained for himfelf a Knighthood,
with
the Habit ofSt.
rag(/,
with other favours; and for
.Almagro
he acquired the Title of Marefchal of
Pe–
,.H,
with the extent of Government, reaching an hundred Leagues North and
South, dill:inet from the
J
urifdietion of
Marq_uu Pifarro
;
the which fecond Go–
vernment was called New
Toledo,
as
the other was New
Caftile.
The
Advices
hereof being wrote from
Spain, Almagro
received them at
eo«o,
where he refi–
ded with Prince
Manco Inca,
and with
{ohn
and
Gon falo Piyarro,
Brothers of the
Marquifs, and being, as is the nature of all ambitious Men, impatient for Go–
vernment and Command , he never £laid for Commiffion from His Majefiy, nor
Confirmation of the News, but immediately from that time took on him the Ti–
tle of Governour. And whereas (it was reported) that the Jurifdietion of the
Mar–
quifs
Pira;ro
was co extend
'
2.ooLeagues
in
length from the Equinocrial
Southward,
whether the
fame
be meafured along the Coall:, or within Land, or by the degrees
oflatirude, it would fall our, that the City of
Couo
would not be comprehended
within his Lot, but would belong
to
Almagro;
on confidence of which, without
other Confiderations, he
laid
afide the Deputation he had received from
Alma-
'
gr<>,
and in virtue of his own Right
aifumeCI
to himfelf the
Government
of that
City ,
and !hared the
Vaif
alage of the
Indians
amongfr his own Creatures
by
Authority from h·mfelf.
All
which he acted b
the
Advice
and Counfel of
·
feveral